I have gotten several requests for recipes of dishes pictured in one of my previous posts, and pictured here again, above each recipe. I don’t actually do “recipes” per se - i just more or less chop, slice, and throw into a pot or bowl. But I have included a list of ingredients below, to [...]
Most people know me as an Iraqi Jew. So they would corner me at the local synagogue, asking - in a tone that was part-conspiring and part-patronizing (because food was all Iraqi Jews were good for) – what I ate for dinner growing up. “Stouffers,” I’d reply, simultaneously disappointing and confusing them. What they didn’t [...]
This soup is packed with organic veggies, Adzuki beans, and spices. Yum! I have self-healed from asthma, insomnia, chronic pain, and numerous other chronic health issues, and I have stopped the growth of cancer, through self-care strategies that I have developed over the years - through personal experimentation (my body and life are [...]
Here are five reasons to support Iraqis in Pajamas, with a tax-deductible contribution: You love our music. You enjoy the innovative and edgy music that we create, and you want us to keep creating it. You believe in our message. You are inspired by the stories of healing and transformation in our songs, and you [...]
Can music really heal the physical body? Leading scientific research says yes. Studies on the healing powers of music are documented in books like The Power of Music (by NY Times best-selling author Elena Mannes) and The Healing Power of Sound (by oncologist Mitchell Gaynor MD), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched three new studies on the healing [...]
When Iraqis in Pajamas front woman Loolwa Khazzoom was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2010, she was not simply offered the option of surgery; rather, she was bullied into choosing that option, with one of the doctors telling her, in so many words, that she would die if she did not get surgery, emphasizing, “You can’t [...]
I wrote this personal statement for the Lloyd Symington Foundation, as part of my application for a grant for my band, Iraqis in Pajamas, to produce the song, "Cancer Is My Engine." It puts my Cancer Healing Adventure in the context of a lifetime of choices I made in how to approach trauma and healing. My [...]
Contact: Loolwa Khazzoom, Band Leader (253) 466-4326 iraqisinpajamas@gmail.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Against the Backdrop of Scientific Studies Proving the Healing Power of Music, Seattle Band Releases Innovative Single about Healing from Cancer through Song On March 1, Iraqis in Pajamas releases, “Cancer Is My Engine,” whose production is being funded by the Lloyd Symington Foundation, which supports people living with and healing [...]
You live in a Drug-encrusted fantasy About what you want to do And who you want to be Toking on pot Hiding behind a shroud of smoke That pushes you away from me As you indulge in self-pity Howling about abandonment While you fail to be there for me Postponing delaying The ways you promised [...]
I write songs As my way of communicating The depth of my feelings But I find that words Are silly inadequate To express the vastness of grief That I feel Without you here The omnipresent void That threatens to engulf me In a dark abyss My world is shattered I feel resentful That life carries [...]
